Jean Yarbrough

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Education:

B.A., Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA

M.A., The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research

Ph.D., The Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research

Ms. Yarbrough is Professor of Government and Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences, with teaching responsibilities in political philosophy and American Political Thought. She has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, first in 1983-84, when she was named a Bicentennial Fellow and again in 2005-2006, under a "We the People" initiative. She is the author of American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People (Kansas, 1998) , has edited The Essential Jefferson (Hackett, 2006) and, her most recent book, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition, (University Press of Kansas, 2012) won the Richard E. Neustadt Award for 2013 (awarded annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) for the best book on the Presidency). Ms. Yarbrough is the author of numerous articles and essays in American political thought and public policy, as well as other topics in political philosophy. She serves on the editorial boards of The Review of Politics and Polity, and was President of the New England Political Science Association in 2005.

“The New Freedom,” review of Ronald J. Pestritto’s Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, and Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings (Claremont Review of Books, Winter 2005/2006), pp. 29-31.

“Duty, Honor, Country: On the Importance of the Military Virtues in Preserving our Republican Institutions,” adapted from keynote address at West Point celebrating its Bicentennial, Claremont Review of Books (Fall 2001) pp. 7-8

“James Madison and Modern Federalism,“ in How Federal is the Constitution?, ed. Robert Goldwin and William Schambra (American Enterprise Institute, 1987)
“Rethinking The Federalist’s View of Federalism,” Publius: The Journal of Federalism (Winter 1985) vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 31-53